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I tend to think this is why Catholicism might be too hard for some people.\u00a0When a Catholic starts discussing their faith and states birth control sucks or women can\u2019t be ordained and here\u2019s why, invariably\u00a0that statement\u00a0is used as some kind of \u201cproof\u201d against Catholicism.\u00a0\u00a0It sounds something like this, \u201cYou just said something I don\u2019t agree with. See. This is why I am not Catholic.\u201d Yeah, let me know when you find that perfect\u00a0religion\u00a0that preaches everything in accordance to you and doesn\u2019t challenge you in the slightest. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Catholicism is hard and challenging and often you will find many Catholics who disagree on a great number of things. In fact we quarrell a lot. I\u2019ve been known to ask, in moments of great frustration, is there anything Catholics won\u2019t fight about?\u00a0But that\u2019s because Catholicism is a big family with\u00a0relatives all over the world and when we get together there\u2019s always someone who has too much to drink and starts a fight.<\/p>\n

$\"Look$ <\/a><\/p>\n

To an outsider it might appear to be a dysfunctional family, to an insider it\u2019s\u00a0just another huge family that has a quirky uncle and weird cousin whom we love despite themselves. Another example would be my Southern Baptist neighbor complaining about the \u2018tacky\u2019 bathtub Madonna junking up the yard and making the value of their home going down.\u00a0Catholicism is an odd foreign looking thing from the outside and\u00a0filled with\u00a0so many colorful characters.\u00a0\u00a0And yes, sometimes these odd characters don\u2019t agree with each other about their own faith but they remain\u00a0Catholic despite the challenges and the dogmas they don\u2019t fully understand.\u00a0 This is called faith. It could also an example of\u00a0love.<\/p>\n

So great is our love for our faith that we don\u2019t mind the extra moral challenges and rules. We may fight about them and what they mean but we still remain Catholic because in our minds and hearts there is nothing else, and most certainly nothing better. That, and we know the only thing we will ever agree on is that there will always be something to disagree over. Catholics have been around too long to be that naive and narrow about their faith. So something as a simple as a disagreement doesn\u2019t really \u2018prove\u2019 anything to Catholics except an unwillingless to meet half way. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"